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TIL that taxidermists use beetles to clean bones for skeletal displays.

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WXoX TIL that a man successfully “foreclosed” on a Wells Fargo office because they failed to respond to his letters of inquiry and then ignored his $1,000 small claims judgement.
gM017 TIL the sitcom "Married with Children" was originally titled, "Not the Cosbys".
91vQ TIL that glass is transparent because of quantum mechanics, not due to the density of the particles. Basically since there are discrete energy states, if the photon can’t excite the electron up to the next orbital, it just falls back down and shoots the photon out with the same momentum as before.
jNdpp TIL- The "No Animals Were Harmed" moniker on movies only applies while film is actually recording.
VBjxk TIL in 1879 when the phone was becoming widespread and everyone was assigned phone numbers to make it easier for phone operators, the Bell Telephone company was initially worried that people might take offense to being reduced to a "number"